The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IT is RuMoRED in Montreal railway circles
| that the Grand Trunk will form connection
| next year by way of Duluth with the Manitoba
| Boundary railway, thus placing itself Id conpe-
| tltion with the Canadian Pacific
| NEGRO COOK on board of Scotch schooner
| is the author of novel way of killing shark
He heated O friedrich red-hot, wrapped It up IN
a greasy cloth and threw it overheard wheh InS
! voracious shark darted after it and Swau9weu
| it. The sharks fury was soon subdued ana ne
| hoated to the surface dead.
| Mr. MOODY is reported as saying that he was
in favor of whole holiday on Saturday at TINS
season, and then there would be DO excuse Tor
Sunday excursions and Sunday newspapers;
AS to the influence of Sunday papers he Is saiu
TO have said: You can't pound sermon lnCo
a man with sledgehammer after ne has goee
through reading one of those Sunday papers
AN ALBANY wATcHMAKER to whom watch
that had been dropped overheard on a hshlng
excursion was taken found that some OF the
works were so badly rusted that they were use
less IL said he you ha tdo afGp dt Of yf fhe
water, or, better yet have dropped IL lnI9
alcohol or any kind of strong liquor IL woulu
have cost you nothing but the cleaning.
THE rush of visitors to the White Mountains
just now is unprecedented, says the Boston
Herald. GAS rule in the hotels and boarding
houses, every inch of room is occupied, visitors
! their opportunity, while hundreds have wan
dered from place to place seeking spot on
which.to rest them even temporarily. The sea
son is late, and it may prove short, but IL SET III
with rush last week."
The Vienna newspapers state that when the
| train in which Prince Ferdinand Travelled TO
| Orsova reached Temesvar superior staff officer
who waiting for him on the platform asked
| him either to remain in the country or to sign
| paper resgning his commission in the army.
| Of course he chose the latter alternative Inc
| incident shows how anxious the Austrian gov
| eminent was TO let the world know that it had
nothing to do with the Prince or his friends.
| In Amsterdam, N. Y, there is a remarkable
photograph, according to a newspaper there.
| 1t is group of the heads of four young ladies'.
| But if the picture is placed across the room
| and looked at with half-closed eyes for few
| moments, striking likeness of the late Senator
| John A. Logan can be seen. Two OF the young
| ladies' form his long black hair; the shadows
| make a high forehead and prominent nose the
| heavy bangs o. another of the group furnish
| the prominent moustache, and the neck OF the
| fourth his eyes This phenomenon was discov-
| cred by near-sighted gentleman when without
his glasses"
| CALIFORNIA PRODUCERS of fruit and vegeta-
bles, especially of canned fruits, will not mind
| the higher freight rates caused by the inter-
| State commerce law this season. The fruit
yield in the East, and in the Mississippi Valley,
| is SO far below the average, taken as whole,
| that there is sure to be a brisk demand for the
| products of the Pacific coast and the market
| in Chicago has already advanced enough to
| make up for the rise in freig IS Meanwhile
consumers will enjoy the blessings of living in
| country where all soils and climates are found
| in perfection, and the products of widely sepa-
| rated regions are poured into every important
| market in the land.
| THE Cunard steamship Etruria's last trip to
| New York ended Saturday, was made in six days
| four hours and fortY-seven minutes, or thirty
| five minutes longer than the fastest trip rec
ord-that of her sister ship, the Umbria. The
| world is seeing great development is in the mer-
| chant marine since the Savannah, the first
| steamer to cross the ocean, went from Savan-
| nah to Liverpool in 1919, in twenty-siX days.
| The smallest steamer that ever crossed the At
! lantic arrived in August, 1880, and went
| to Philadelphia. She steamed the entire
| distance, 1916 miles, with consumption of
| less than twenty tive tons of coal. She is ~
| feet in length and her gross tonnage is seventy
| tons.
| A CERTAIN Albany grocer, to make good
| show, has been in the habit of leaving coffee
bags filled with sand in front of his store during
the daytime The other night, by mistake, one
| of the bags was not taken in. Covetous eyes
saw what appeared to be a bag of coffee and
| the covetous man paid 81 for wagon, and
| after dark confiscated the bag and drove off
with it, He discovered that it was filled with sand
| and that he out 81, and then had the asSur-
ance to send threatening letter to the grocery
man, telling him of the fact, and stating that If
| he did not send 50 to him Che gave fictitious
nance through the post office he would expose
his dishonesty. The scheme did not work.
THERE is to be goddess at the Golden Gate.
| San FrancscD dispatch to the New York
Times tells about the project thus: Adolph
Sutro, of tunnel fame, has decided to present o
| colossal Statue of Liberty TO the city of San
Francisco, The figure will be of stone, and, in
Guiding the pedestal Will be forty feet high
At the base will crouch a figure representing
| Anarchy. The statue is to be erected on the
| summit of one of the twin peaks, two cone
shaped hills at the extremity of Market street,
| midway of the peninsula, overlooking both the
! Pacific Ocean and the Bay of San Francisco,
| The site for the statue is 966 feet high, that
the electric light torches which Liberty will hold
aloft, will be 1000 feebove the level of the sea,
WILLIAM j. SHEPHERD, of Philadelphia, is
happy. Twenty three years ago on Washing
toms birthday he was wounded by the acct
dental discharge of the musket of a comrade
| during the parade of the Twenty ninth Penn
sylvania Volunteers, of which regiment he was
| a member. After his recovery he rejoined his
| command at the front, and served i'll several
important engagements. AT the close Of the
| wa" he applied for pension. but received no
| encouragement. From time to time, however,
he persistently renewed his application, until it
was at last fayorably considered. The argu-
| ment made by Shepherd was that he was still in
| the service when he was wounded. The back
| pay and arrearageS due him will amount to
| $40 900 or more He still suffers from the wound.
A SUIT brought in the Court of Common Pleas
in Pickaway county, Ohio brings to light novel
antenuptial contract. Col L. H. Bond, now a
well-kuown lawyer of Cincinnati, was, in 1854,
| living at Circeville, 0. He had recently been
elected prosecuting attorney In September of
| that year he married Miss Eva Saxon, the
| adopted daughter of Josiah Renick, one of the
| wea thiest and most influential citizens of that
| region He afterward moved to Cincinnati
where he prospsred. Not long ago Mr. Renlck
| died leaving the income of his property to his
| widow during her lifetime, and after her death
ibe property was to go to certain religious in
| sttutions. Thereupon Mrs. Bond brought suit
| for $50 900 against the executors of the estate
| aud alleged in her complaint that Mr.. Renick
| had entered into a written agreement on July
| TO- 1854 to will to her at his death the sum now
| sued for the sole condition of the contract
| being that Lawyer Bond and she'should be mar
ried within sixty days Gfter the signing of the
| contract.
A MAGAZINE published in Philadelphia in 1918
| gave the following as an item of news: in the
course of the twelve months of 1917, ~ 900
wagons passed the Allegheny mountains from
| Philadelphia and Baltimore, each with from
four 10 six horses, carrying from $500 to 1000
| hundred weight. in some c lses as high as $40 to
| Philadelphia The aggregate sum paid for the
| conveyance of goodsseXceeded1, $500, COO y To
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